ALA | American Library Association Announces Award Winners
Newbery Winner
Caldecott Winner
Kate DiCamillo, author of The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread, and Mordicai Gerstein, illustrator and author of The Man Who Walked Between the Towers, are the 2004 winners of the John Newbery and Randolph Caldecott medals.
The ALA page, linked above, also details the other award winners, which include a double for Angela Johnson's The First Part Last:
Coretta Scott King Awards
Angela Johnson, author of The First Part Last and Ashley Bryan, illustrator and author of Beautiful Blackbird
Michael L. Printz Award
Angela Johnson Printz Award for her moving novel The First Part Last
Robert F. Sibert Award
Jim Murphy, author of An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, was named the winner of the 2004 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award for most distinguished informational book for children published in 2003.
Margaret A. Edwards Award
Ursula K. LeGuin is the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award honoring her lifetime contribution to young adult readers.
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